Ready Warrior K9 Quick Reference Guide (3rd Edition)

For when your dog is the casualty

Working dogs get hurt in ways most pets never will. Trauma, heat stress, bloat, snakebite, drug exposure. When it happens, you're the first one there, and often the only one for a while.

This guide is there so you're not relying on memory under pressure. It's made by Ready Warrior, run by a former Special Forces medic, and developed with ParaVet K9 (Den Mother K9), whose lead instructor Even spent nearly 20 years as a Special Operations K9 handler. It covers what matters when things go wrong - care priorities, tourniquets, heat, bloat, snakebite, CPR, shock and vitals - laid out to be read fast.

Pocket sized and fully laminated, so it lives in a shoulder pocket, IFAK or aid bag and goes out with you every time.

It's a reference, not a replacement for proper training or a vet. Any medications in it should only be used within your training, your authority and local regulations.

This K9 Quick Reference Guide covers:

• K9 handling considerations.
• T.H.R.E.A.T. algorithm for K9 care (order to perform medical care for K9’s) such as what tourniquets work best and when to use them.
• Where to needle decompress a K9.
• How to deal with heat stress.
• Gastric dilation and volvulus (bloat).
• Snake bite.
• K9 CPR.
• Unconscious/unresponsive K9.
• Hydration status in K9’s and injection sites.
• K9 vitals (baseline and space for your K9).
• K9 stages of shock.
• Emergency formulary (drug doses) for K9’s.
• Advanced life support medications, anaesthetics, benzodiazepines and opioids (and their reversal agents), and more!
• K9 med kit considerations.
• Injection sites with visual image guide.
• K9 information card.

• Size is 133mm (H) x 89mm (W).
• Fully laminated. 
• Easily fits in shoulder pockets of duty uniforms, IFAK's, and aid bags. 
• Rugged enough and small enough to go with you on every single mission.